On the above day and date commenced one of the great battles of the "War Between the States," generally known as the "Battle ...

MEMPHIS, November 11 , 1861. Major-General POLK: Please send me all the guns and accouterments that can be spared to Chattanooga. I will mo...

General Zollicoffer sent the following telegram this morning to General Johnston, Bowling Green Kentucky: One Ohio Regiment said to be tw...

BOWLING GREEN, October 21, 1861. General ZOLLICOFFER: GENERAL: Your telegram from London received. The information we have of the enemy in...

RICHMOND, September 4, 1861. General POLK, Memphis, Tenn.: News has reached here that General Pillow has landed his troops at Hickman, Ky....

RICHMOND, September 4, 1861. General POLK: The necessity justifies the action. JEFFERSON DAVIS. SOURCE:  The War of the Rebellion: A Compil...

CLARKSVILLE, September 15, 1861. His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, Richmond, Va.: I am just from Nashville, where some dissatisfaction pre...

Clear and cool; warm late in the day. It is rumored now that the enemy got to Westtown yesterday, some ten miles below the point on this s...

At 7½ A.M. cannon and musketry heard northeast of the city, which either ceased or receded out of hearing at 12 M.; or else the hum of the c...

A bright and beautiful day; southern breezes. No reliable war news; but there are rumors that our victory at Shreveport was a great one. N...

Rained all night, but clear most of the day. There are rumors of Burnside landing troops on the Peninsula; also of preparations for moveme...

A clear morning, but a cold, cloudy day. The following dispatch from Gen. Forrest shows that the bloody work has commenced in earnest: DEM...

Raining moderately. Yesterday Mr. Miles, member of Congress from South Carolina, received a dispatch from Charleston, signed by many of th...

Bright, clear, and pleasant; frosty in the morning. Letters from Lieut.-Gen. Hood to the President, Gen Bragg, and the Secretary of War, g...

Cold and clear. Congress adjourned yesterday, having passed the bill suspending the writ of habeas corpus for six months at least. Now the ...

Clear and windy. There is nothing new that I have heard of; but great apprehensions are felt for the fate of Mississippi—said to be penetrat...

A plan of invasion. Gen. Longstreet telegraphs that he has no corn, and cannot stay where he is, unless supplied by the Quartermaster-Genera...

Hazy, misty weather. Gen. Lovell (who lost New Orleans) has applied for a command in the West, and Gen. Johnston approves it strongly. He d...

EDITOR APPEAL:   The petition for a special policeman to perform certain duties for   the Mothers’ Rooms, having given rise to much discus...

The Senate has passed a new Conscription Act, putting all residents between the ages of eighteen and fifty-live in the military service for...